MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
[One of my former, and unemployed, coworkers noted on FB that her car was surrounded by police chasing OWS protestors, so I went looking for a report.]
Occupy Wall Street spent yesterday in a day-long struggle to occupy a new space (first Duarte Square, then One New York Plaza) on the three-month anniversary of the movement. Over the course of 12 hours, protests ranged from Duarte Square and its Trinity Wall Street-owned and OWS-coveted vacant lot to Times Square to, eventually, One New York Plaza, a Brookfield-owned property near the Staten Island Ferry. Two attempts at occupying a new space failed, and at least 50 arrests were made.
Meanwhile, the assembled press gaggle was having an almost equally rough night. Two photographers say that police threatened to take their official press passes away, a credentialed cameraman was hit over the head with a baton, and another photographer was arrested.